Volume 55 Issue 8, November 2017

The Physics Teacher

This month's cover features a magnetohydrodynamically propelled watercraft developed by physicist Anjalee Rutah (shown) and her collaborators at Towson University: James Overduin, Viktor Polyak, Thomas Sebastian, Jim Selway, and Daniel Zile. See their article "The Hunt for Red October II..." for details regarding the operation of this "caterpillar drive" vehicle.

Additional Resources

Inspired by an article from The Physics Teacher, this multidisciplinary lesson and digital resource collection is based on How Rosalind Franklin Discovered the Helical Structure of DNA: Experiments in Diffraction (Braun, Tierney, & Schmitzer, 2011). Click the image to access this resource.